"We rode along in silence, thinking our private thoughts. Charlie and I had an unspoken agreement not to throw ourselves into speedy travel just after a meal. There were many hardships to our type of life and we took these small comforts as they came; I found they added up to something decent enough to carry on"

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Source : Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.12, Granta Books

Patrick deWitt

#Thinking Quotes #Agreement Quotes #Silence Quotes

“One of the first items of Congressional business in 2006 will be an effort to renew the USA Patriot Act.”
“though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little, and the lesson-book we cannot graduate from is human experience.”

Source : Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub
“I don't believe in making movies to cater to a foreign audience. You never know what the reaction is going to be anyhow. At the time I made Maborosi, the Japanese movies getting any foreign attention were all period dramas and seemed to be about some representative element of Japanese life, and my movie was contemporary movie about one specific woman trying to understand her husband's suicide.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection.”
“After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.”
“I'm simultaneously terrified of the thought of existing forever and not existing at all. Wherein is my peace?”
“You hold precious what you create for yourself in your life that makes you comfortable.”

Source : "For Key And Peele, Biracial Roots Bestow Special Comedic 'Power'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 20, 2013.
“No one likes my books except the public.”

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